Homemade Christmas Gifts ~ Etched Glass Pans

I’ve been hard at work getting ready for Christmas. I really like making personalized gifts for our family members. We don’t live near our immediate family, so everything must be mailed. For me, that means I need to be done early, that way I can miss the lines at the post office and the packages will arrive in time.

Today I’m showing you the first part in a series of the gifts I’ve made for my parents, in-laws, and all of our siblings. If you are one of the people I just mentioned, please stop reading now and wait for the package to arrive at your house! Thanks! If you are not one of those family members…please keep reading, I would love to show you the beautiful Handmade Christmas gift I came up with this year. 🙂I made a personalized etched glass pan for each family. I put each family name on one side of the Pyrex dish and a design on the other side of each dish. The name and the design are permanently etched into the pan. I got the idea from Make It and Love it in a post about Glass Etching and promptly pinned it to my Real Gift Ideas Pinterest board. Let me show you how I made this gift.

Supplies:

I made my own stencils following the tutorial I showed you in this post: Make Your Own Stencils {Tutorial}. If you don’t have a Cricut, you can either buy a stencil or cut your own. I used adhesive vinyl this time and I have used contact paper in the past as well. Either will work fine to make your own stencil.

Because I used adhesive vinyl(affiliate link), I was able to peel the stencil from the backing paper and adhere it directly to the pan.

Once I made sure the stencil was fully on, straight, and that no bubbles were near the edges of the letters. I put on the etching cream. I have done this several times now, so I have learned to put on a fairly thick coat of etching cream that covers the whole surface being etched. Once I got a fairly thick coat on, I smoothed the cream out just to make sure everything was covered. I left my etching cream on for about 30 minutes.

Once the 30 minutes are up, wash the etching cream off and remove the stencil.

You will now have a gorgeous pan and gift!

Maybe you will want to make some Christmas brownies in your newly etched pan. That is just what I did. The Christmas brownie mix just may be part of the gift for our family. 😉

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Comments

I’ve been wanting to try etching something – this is a great idea! do you put the etching cream over the whole surface of the glass? I thought it would have to go under the letters…or am I looking at it wrong?

Thanks, Dara. Once you adhere the stencil to your glass surface, the etching cream goes on the glass part that you want etched. In this case, it would go on the letters because I wanted them etched. I don’t want it to go under them because in this case that would mean I didn’t have distinct letters. Does that help or am I not explaining it well. If you have ever stenciled anything, it is jut like that. You put the stencil on a put paint in the open areas you want painted. Same thing, except you put etching cream. Let me know if that helps or if you have other questions.KC

I made one for my daughter a few years ago…she requested I use her first name because she was hoping to be married someday. So, now she IS married, and her dish says Jamie, not Wilson. hahahah smart girl she is!

I love the idea of using the first name. Yes, she is a smart girl to think of that. When I was single, I probably would have thought of it as well…but my first name it too long, so I would have been bummed and had to figure something else out. LOL!Take care,KC

Thank you so much! Yes, they are oven safe. I would recommend you do a little research because there have been some issue with Pyrex pans cracking, breaking or exploding. It has nothing to do with the glass etching, but I just want to make sure you are aware.
Take care,
KC

I love this. So just to clarify…you took something that was a solid sheet (contact paper) and your cricut machine cut the letters out. So what you had left was a solid paper with letter cut out that you stuck on the OUTSIDE of the dish. Am I correct?

Yes, I use contact paper or adhesive vinyl. I cut it on the Cricut. I remove the actual letters (the part that you would use if you were cutting something for scrapbooking). It should look just like a stencil at that point with just the inside of the letters or design. Then, yes, that gets stuck to the outside of the dish and the etching cream goes on that.
So glad you like it. I’d love to see pics of what you make if you want to share. Fun! Enjoy!

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